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From: mike@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Mike Elliot)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: AIX version numbers
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Date: 31 May 90 03:59:06 GMT
Reply-To: mike@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Mike Elliot)
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	We are in the process of ordering a 6000 type machine from IBM
so, being the guy who is going to have to port to it, I have started
reading this group. One of the things I have noticed is the wide array
of version numbers mentioned. Some people are talking about upgrading 
from 1.1 to 1.2, others are talking about 2.1 and 3.1; then there is
this 9005, 9013s, and 9019 stuff. Could someone please explain IBM's
numbering scheme.

-mje

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			Mike Elliot
			{allegra|bellcore|cadre|psuvax1}!pitt!cisunx!mike
			mike@unix.cis.pitt.edu
			mike@pittvms.bitnet

It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more
doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a
new system.  For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by
the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in
those who would gain by the new ones.

			-Machiavelli